Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard College appears to have carried athletic training to its farthest extent, but when we consider that the Greeks spent years, nay lives, to win a race or throw a wrestler, we seem, in comparison, to have paid but little attention to the training of our bodies. To the Greeks, especially, of all people, the primary requisite for success in public and private life was a corpus sanum, without which the use to them of the mens sana was gone. Thus, in training their bodies, did Pericles, Demosthenes and nearly every Greek whose name and fame have been handed down...
...between the monthly reports and the price for the term, the latter must carry the day, and for two reasons: (1) It is based on the expenses for the long period, and, therefore, less liable to error, and (2) the total amount of bills paid is then verified by comparison with the bursar's account of money disbursed...
...some kind of historical process. Then another view will be suggested as giving us another and higher sense in which we can assume that reality answers our moral needs. Finally, since all views in these matters involve faith as an element, the last discussion will try by a comparison of two well-known kinds of faith to define what the spirit of faith ought...
...known English astronomical periodical, the Observatory, Mr. A. M. W. Downing of Greenwich reviews a paper lately published in the memoirs of the American academy by Prof. W. A. Rogers of Cambridge, upon the "Harvard College Observatory Catalogue of Stars for 1875." The article by Prof. Rogers is a comparison of the catalogue with the fundamental systems of Anwers, Safford, Boss and Newcomb. This comparison, according to Mr. Downing, shows the excellence of the Harvard College Observatory star places, and goes far to justify the great relative weight which is assigned to them by American and German astronomers when combining...
...Yale News who described "Eighty-four's Promenade," should leave such unlimited power to his biographers, we fear that the revised edition of his recent four-column article would suffer severe abridgment. That article is overflowing with poetic sentiments; the rich metaphors of Tom Moore are nowhere in comparison with this brilliant effusion of verbal pyrotechnics. Think, for instance, of a "top gallery, separated from the world below by a light cloud of blue muslin, from whence floated the music of Wheeler and Wilson's" - sewing machine, we read it first, but it turned out to be a band, - presumably...